First. Produce more key passes doesn't make him a DLP since box to box also make more key passes.
Well that is not what that was addessing is it ? That point was adressing the fact you mis- categorized Matic as a destroyer.
DLP role is starting attack from defense by spraying passes in all direction, they dictate the play. They can't lose possession too often which he has been losing it in important occasion when he was just making simple passes.
I repeat. You need to drop this myth that Matic constantly makes easy turnovers of possession. Its is not supported by anything. Not even statistics. I'll also again refer you to Chelsea's last title win under Jose. One of the reasons chelsea were so good that season was the double playmaking pivot Matic and Fabregas gave them. In addition it is fairly obvious every game that Matic is always starting attacks from deep. You are also conflating Matic playing a support role to Pogba's superior play making, like what Carrick regularly did for Scholes back in 2007, with being unable to run a game himself.
Second,
What you said doesn't make any sense here. The main reason he is classified as a defensive midfielder because his biggest asset is in his defense...
Wrong. If it was just about being good in defence even ball playing center halves would always be used in that position. The role is much more sophisticated than that.
My destroyer term is different, I was referring to defensive midfielder.
You can't re invent the meaning of the term. A destroyer is the type of defensive midfielder who is wholly negative in their play
Either dedicated to simple ball winning or acting as a Catenaccio type sweeper a.ka Third center half operating infront of the teo center backs.
. Just he has better passing skills than Makelele doesn't make him a DLP.
Which isn't my line of argument at all. My line of argument when I posted that statement was his superior attacking and passing skills do not make him a destroyer LIKE Makelele.
Why I class him as a player capable of operating as DLP has nothing to do just mere passing skill. The reasons are class him as DLP are also the reasons I was certain he'd replace Carrick in our XI very well before we even brought him to OT.
Everyone in here already said he's not DLP.
Good for them. Respectfully, I prefer my own opinion.
Third,
Matic was never going to control a midfield with Herrera against the likes of Southampton but Carrick a true standard DLP is fine when he played with Cleverley, Anderson & Jones.
Seriously? You want to deny that Carrick was NEVER over run and over whelmed in midfield alongside a midfield partner in poor form? Really? Because that is EXACTLY what happened with Herrara alongside Matic. Whenever he played alongside Fellaini he didn't have such a problem. Listing for me Anderson, Cleverly or Jones is utterly irrelevant to that fact.
His main asset for a top club is defending not passing. He's more of a support role rather than someone that we can use to build our midfield around like Carrick, Scholes & etc.
It is not a must in any shape or form that a team must build its game around a playmaker. Many times that player plays secondary support role to a superior playmaker further upfield. Best example of this was the role Xavi Alonso played for Spain with Xavi also in the team. Or even Busquets at Barcelona